Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun familial_hypercholesterolemia

1 sense of familial hypercholesterolemia

Sense 1
familial hypercholesterolemia -- (congenital disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol and early development of atherosclerosis)
       => hypercholesterolemia, hypercholesteremia -- (the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis)
       => monogenic disorder, monogenic disease -- (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)